[Kde-scm-interest] Project release tags on Gitorious

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Sun Nov 29 23:53:06 CET 2009


A Diumenge, 29 de novembre de 2009, Eike Hein va escriure:
> On 11/29/2009 11:22 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> >> So I don't really see why testing the waters should be
> >> exclusive to Amarok.
> >
> > Because that is what was decided.
> 
> I'm not really sure what to make of this, tbh. It's in stark
> contrast to the general "you should get going with git, too!"
> vibe on IRC and the blogs promoted by the Amarokers. They
> seem to be really happy they made the switch, and we at Konvi
> don't see any additional needs we have over Amarok.
> 
> Yes, Gitorious isn't perfect yet - that's why I started this
> thread, I think the tagging situation really needs a fix -
> but using git would make it worth putting up with that for
> us.
> 
> The way I see it, any additional team that makes the leap
> and switches over is only going to increase momentum of
> the whole transition, which should help with the work on
> the list that led to that decision you cite. Preventing
> eager people from switching to git won't make switching to
> git happen any faster. There's little motivation to work
> on the list without concrete need/benefit, and if moving
> to git doesn't cause anybody trouble regardless of the
> list, then why the hell not allow people to switch and
> increase momentum.

We might as well scrap the whole TODO list, decide git is ready and do the 
mass migration :-)

> > I don't intend to block anything, the list of things to do is blocking
> 
> the
> 
> > move not me.
> 
> Not really. You started things out with "if you move to
> git you're going to lose i18n because I won't edit some
> files and add some lines". I'd ask you to please reconsi-
> der.

It's not me that doesn't want to do it, what i understand is that KDE as a 
whole doesn't want me to do it, otherwise we would be migrating all KDE there.

On the other hand if the release-team and this list agree projects can flee as 
they want to git i don't have any problem making the appropiate changes to 
files.

Albert

> 
> > Albert
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